To:THE NARROW C.P.C.[1]

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ComradeKiselyov or his Deputyas Chairman of the Narrow C.P.C.

August 27, 1921

ComradeKiselyov:

Anumber of statements indicate that the introduction
of charges (for services, etc.) frequently creates an
intolerable situation for theworkers.

Thereis need to elect a commission:

1)twofrom the All-Russia Central T.U.C.

2)onerepresentative each from the Petrograd and the
Moscow Soviet of Deputies

3)twomembers of the C.P.C.

4)Chairmanof the Narrow Council (Comrade Kiselyov)
—to preside.

Assignmentto the commission:

all-roundpreparation of the question (and relevant
decrees) to the effect that the introduction of charges should
be made conformable to the workers’ wages and their
condition in general (exemptions for workers, etc., or something
of that kind, the dates and conditions on which charges
are to be introduced, etc.).

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, C.P.C.

P.S.All these questions should be passedonlythrough
the Full C.P.C.

[1]Incontrast to the practice of providing free economic services
(transport, including urban transport, housing, posts,
newspapers, etc.), established during the War Communism period,
charges for rail and water transportation wore introduced on July
9, 1921, postal charges on July 18, prices on goods, including food,
on August 5, and charges for municipal services on August 25.

Inthe second half of 1921, the C.P.C. look a number ofmeasures to improve the workers’ material conditions: it introduced
new principles for wage payments in accordance with quantity
and quality of labour, payment in money instead of in kind,
guaranteed wages (in commodity rubles), etc. As a result, the real
earnings of workers had already increased by the end of 1921.